Cargando…

Fifty Years of Religious Studies in Canada : A Personal Retrospective /

In Canadian universities in the early 1960s, no courses were offered on Hinduism, Buddhism, or Islam. Only the study of Christianity was available, usually in a theology program in a church college or seminary. Today almost every university in North America has a religious studies department that of...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Coward, Harold G., 1936- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • 1 Early Days: From Theology in Seminaries to Non-sectarian Religious Studies
  • 2 The Golden Decade 1966-1976
  • 3 McMaster Days: My Personal Experiences of McMaster in the Early 1970s
  • 4 McMaster's Contribution to Religious Studies in Canada
  • 5 Growing into Maturity: Development of Religious Studies Departments from the Late 1970s to the Present
  • 6 The Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria
  • 7 Taking Seriously Our Interdisciplinary Heritage: The Future of Religious Studies
  • 8 Conclusion.